Police/Court
A Maryland man who authorities said unleashed a string of racial slurs and water from a garden hose at a Vineyard taxi driver has been placed on 18...
A Vineyard Haven man who has worked as an assistant boys’ basketball coach at the Edgartown School and volunteered at Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and...
New Man in Blue
The Oak Bluffs Police Department welcomed its newest full-time officer on Tuesday, Dec. 20 when Derek Back took the oath of office...
A superior court judge has dismissed a political operative’s lawsuit claiming he was libeled by news stories in the Vineyard Gazette and The Boston...
She stood up to speak in a hushed courtroom, two decades after she had been attacked by her boss in a darkened Edgartown bedroom. Only now, she was...
A Tisbury police sergeant has been dismissed following a disciplinary proceeding with the town selectmen over performance in the line of duty...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to launch a statewide inquiry into drunken driving acquittal rates by judges drew mixed reviews...
Something wasn’t right: a man known to have violated his probation was boarding the ferry in Vineyard Haven and heading for Woods Hole, instead of...
The number of drunken driving cases filed in the Island’s district court has dropped significantly over the past few years, even outpacing a...
A 34-year-old man was arraigned this week on charges he telephoned menacing threats from a psychiatric hospital to a Vineyard Haven selectman’s...
Complaints against the Tisbury police department and Sgt. Timothy Stobie alleging discrimination based on sexual harassment have been found to have...
Acquitted on Assault
A wheelchair-bound Vineyard Haven man was acquitted this week of a charge he used a baseball bat to assault a man he accused...
